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This Is What Classic Novels Sound Like When a Computer Turns Them Into Piano Music. Natasha Blasick, Actress, Claims 'Ghost Sex' Is 'Really Pleasurable'
Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security. 10 things the gun industry won’t tell you - 10 things. By Catey Hill, MarketWatch Doris Tamai / Shutterstock.com 1.

“Owning our product may be hazardous to your health.” In the U.S., there are now somewhere between 270 million and 310 million guns, according to the Pew Research Center — that’s almost one gun for every person in the nation. Judges and legislators across the political spectrum recognize the constitutional right to bear arms.
The Secret Life of a Cat: What mischievous moggies gets up to behind their owners' backs. New television show uncovers the 'secret lives' of domestic cats50 felines from the Surrey village of Shamley Green were fitted with GPS collars and 'cat cams'Footage shows cats stealing food, fighting, killing moths and roaming across seven acres of farmland By Alice Azania Jarvis Published: 02:32 GMT, 13 June 2013 | Updated: 17:57 GMT, 14 June 2013.

Tracing Ancestry, Researchers Produce a Genetic Atlas of Human Mixing Events. The rise and fall of empires, the march of armies, the flow of trade routes, the practice of slavery — all these events have led to a mixing of populations around the world.

All the studios and the Marvel heroes they own in one handy graph. Time-lapse video showcases stunning storms. 10 supplements you can take today to enhance your intelligence. All About Romance Novels - Crowns, Pounds and Guineas: A Quick Guide To British Currency. Crowns, Pounds and Guineas: A Quick Guide To British Currency by Ellen Micheletti If you read a novel set in Great Britain, whether it is a romance novel or a classic by Charles Dickens, you will come across references to money.

The monetary system of Great Britain can be very confusing to the average American reader, especially since the system until fairly recently, was not a decimal one. The reader will come across words like pounds, shillings and pence, but just what were they, how did they relate to each other, and what in the world did regency bucks mean when they talked about betting a monkey on a prizefight?
Domestic violence: not always one sided.
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Gun crime statistics by US state: download the data. Visualised. How bad is gun crime in the US?

The latest data from the FBI's uniform crime reports provides a fascinating picture of the use of firearms in crimes across America. Barack Obama is under pressure to tighten gun laws after following the disclosure by police that the Newtown gunman used a semi-automatic assault rifle equipped with "numerous" high-capacity magazines holding hundreds of bullets to carry out his massacre of young children. The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - there are 89 guns for every 100 Americans, compared to 6 in England and Wales.
'Elmo' accuser flip flops on accusation, now says affair with puppeteer Kevin Clash DID occur when he was a minor: report. Bc8Du.jpg (500×899)
Exhaustive family tree for birds shows recent, rapid diversification. Image by Arne Mooers (SFU), Gavin Thomas (Sheffield) and Cody Shrank (Yale).

A Yale-led scientific team has produced the most comprehensive family tree for birds to date, connecting all living bird species — nearly 10,000 in total — and revealing surprising new details about their evolutionary history and its geographic context. Analysis of the family tree shows when and where birds diversified — and that birds’ diversification rate has increased over the last 50 million years, challenging the conventional wisdom of biodiversity experts.

“It’s the first time that we have — for such a large group of species and with such a high degree of confidence — the full global picture of diversification in time and space,” said biologist Walter Jetz of Yale, lead author of the team’s research paper, published Oct. 31 online in the journal Nature. The researchers attribute the growing rate of avian diversity to an abundance of group-specific adaptations.
'Near-death experiences occur when soul leaves nervous system'
London, Oct 31, 2012, (PTI) A near-death experience occurs when quantum substances which form the soul leave the nervous system and enter the universe at large, according to a ground-breaking theory proposed by two eminent scientists.According to this idea, consciousness is a programme for a quantum computer in the brain which can persist in the universe even after death, explaining the perceptions of those who have near-death experiences.

Dr Stuart Hameroff, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Centre of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, has advanced the quasi-religious theory, the Daily Mail reported. It is based on a quantum theory of consciousness he and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose have developed which holds that the essence of our soul is contained inside structures called microtubules within brain cells.
Breakthrough in world's oldest undeciphered writing. Life and Death in Tana Toraja, Indonesia. Article and Photos by Chris Dunham “We bury the babies in this tree so the wind can waft away their souls”, explained Stefan, our local guide, as we stared up at the baby-grave tree in Kembira, Sulawesi.

Its trunk was patch-worked with little niches, each the poignant final resting place of a baby, dead before cutting its first tooth.
“I am calling you from Windows”: A tech support scammer dials Ars Technica. When the call came yesterday morning, I assumed at first I was being trolled—it was just too perfect to be true.

My phone showed only "Private Caller" and, when I answered out of curiosity, I was connected to "John," a young man with a clear Indian accent who said he was calling from "Windows Technical Support.
" My computer, he told me, had alerted him that it was infested with viruses. He wanted to show me the problem—then charge me to fix it.
Greece to spend almost €100m on building F1 track. Back to School: A message to high school students who hate high school; Here is why you hate it. The other day an article written by me appeared in the Washington Post saying that algebra was useless and shouldn’t be taught in high school.

The hate mail that followed (written mostly by math teachers) was unbelievable.
Brazil’s Coastal Rainforest Suffers Widespread Species Extinction. The Atlantic forest in Brazil, once a part of the great Amazon basin on the South American continent, is suffering from widespread species loss according to a new study. Ecologist Carlos Peres with England’s University of East Anglia and then University of Cambridge graduate student Gustavo Canale traveled through the region between 2003 and 2005.

They documented 200 of the largest and least disturbed old-growth forest fragments in the vast region of the Atlantic forest. On average, they found only four of the 18 mammal species they were looking for.
Stratosphere Targets Deep Sea to Shape Climate. Sept. 23, 2012 – A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable “Achilles heel” in the North Atlantic and changing mile-deep ocean circulation patterns, which in turn affect Earth’s climate.

“We found evidence that what happens in the stratosphere matters for the ocean circulation and therefore for climate,” says Thomas Reichler, senior author of the study published online Sunday, Sept. 23 in the journal Nature Geoscience. Scientists already knew that events in the stratosphere, 6 miles to 30 miles above Earth, affect what happens below in the troposphere, the part of the atmosphere from Earth’s surface up to 6 miles or about 32,800 feet. Weather occurs in the troposphere. Researchers also knew that global circulation patterns in the oceans – patterns caused mostly by variations in water temperature and saltiness – affect global climate. From Stratosphere to the Sea. Mother-to-daughter womb transplant 'success' in Sweden. 18 September 2012Last updated at 13:38 GMT. HOARD ALL THE GIFS. 'Cinema Ninjas' Hired by Movie Theater to Discipline Patrons Who Talk During Film.

Strippers look to GOP to 'make it rain'
Tampa's strip clubs are preparing for the Republican National Convention More than 50,000 visitors are expected to converge on the Florida city Tampa is known as "lap dance capital of the world," but other cities have more nude clubsA strip club trade group says Republicans spend three times more than Democrats. pKpgc.jpg (850×494)
Death Row Information. Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet. 1w9TD.jpg (1366×768)
Features - Game Research, and What it Means to You — www.gamasutra. Top U.S. colleges to offer free classes online. Cartoonist turns lawsuit threat into $100K charity fundraiser. Internet.

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NASA Weighs In on Mayan Apocalypse on YouTube. Researchers find classical musical compositions adhere to power law. Monkey Business. 1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth. A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four. Scaife: Funding Father of the Right. 20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average. Mansion unlocked after 100 years. Donald Trump's plea to Alex Salmond over 'ugly' wind farm. How Meg Whitman Failed Her Way to the Top at eBay, Collecting Billions While Nearly Destroying the Company.